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Hiougi Karura (緋扇 かるら Hiōgi Karura) is a tengu who controls the yokai in Kyoto under the Western Forces that serve the Yoinozaka Family. She originally was introduced as an antagonist but is now a recurring character.

Intitially, Karura is seen as possessive, obsessive, and a bit manipulative. She never gives up when she wants something or someone. After being rejected by Kogarashi, her personality mellows out but is still very ambitious of her goals. As the story progresses, it's revealed that she's actually quite shy after stalking Kogarashi for so long. She can only be more forward with her feelings if angered, pushed in a corner, or gets "caught in the moment".

Daughter of a Tengu Clan master, she assisted her father rule with an iron fist. During a battle between the Western and Easter forces, Fuyuzora Kogarashi came crashing down and subdue both armies because they were ruining his field-trip. The event made her fall in love with him, while feigning hostility on him. She would search for him until finally finding him at the Yuragi Inn. During her search for Kogarashi she managed to revive one of her clans secret techniques, Clairvoyance. Not knowing how to approach him, she only watched him from afar. It was only until Kogarashi's birthday did she make her move after seeing him mix-bathing with the other female Yuragi residents.

Karura makes her first appearance watching over the Yuragi Inn from above with an angered expression on her face, spotting Kogarashi and saying she finally found him. When everyone was enjoying a mixed bath with Kogarashi, she finally make her presence known along with her best friend, Matora the Nue and servant, Suzutsuki the Sparrow Tengu. She declared the boy the enemy of her father and with Matora's and Suzutsuki's help, she kidnaps Kogarashi with a transformation technique, transforming him into a Kokeshi Doll, while also defeating Nonko (with no alcohol) and Oboro. Yuuna and the rest try to save him but Karura was able to easily repel their attacks with a powerful blast of wind. After finally taking Kogarashi to her room did she reveal to him her true feelings and disturbing admiration for the Yatahagane. Refusing to back down and to keep a public face with her forces, she then plans to "marry" him, in reality, forcing him to a subservient method of marriage. She was defeated by both him and Yuragi-sou's denizens after Yuuna frees him from her marriage subservient spell. Despite her actions, Kogarashi defends Hiougi from her peers for using them while also saying he was happy for her feelings, but officially rejects them. She is visibly touched that despite everything she did and being rejected, Kogarashi still treats her as a woman. Redeeming herself, she visits Kogarashi and gives him a formal present for his birthday, promising to change her ways and hopes they will get along from now on.

She later became a waitress in Kogarashi's part-time job in order to be close to him.

A lost Tengu technique that allows her to read minds and search from afar. It was once thought to be lost but Karura studied hard and revived it. It is revealed that this power can also look into the past, but she has yet to master that part. The Spiritual Barrier Armor of the Chuuma Ninjas can block it.